Dover Athletic v Windsor & Eton

A GOOD crowd is expected to welcome Clive Walker on Saturday for the first home league game of his second spell as manager of Dover.

Whites take on Windsor & Eton at the Hoverspeed Stadium looking to build on the 3-1 win at Staines last weekend in Walker's first game back in charge.

Whites' success-starved fans greeted Saturday's result with unrestrained glee, understandable after enduring such an extended period of misery on and off the field.

After Dover's financial rescue, a change of management and an end to a run of four league defeats, a little optimism has returned to the Hoverspeed Stadium, but Walker is keeping the Staines result in perspective.

He said: "It's early days yet and it is only one game. We did OK but we looked vulnerable in certain areas. We played 4-4-2 and I think the lads that played were probably the best team we could put out."

Paul Hyde, now reinstalled as assistant manager as well as first choice goalkeeper, said: "Clive's got a lot of players he's not familiar with but I've given him the lowdown.

"For the first 20 minutes we were up against it. We scored against the run of play but then they equalised and it looked as if we could get a battering. But you make your own luck and when you've got a forward like Paul Armstrong, who's quick and an opportunist, you've always got a chance.

"Overall there's a lot of hard work to be done but you never know what might happen. It's a funny old game. Hopefully we'll get a good crowd on Saturday to welcome Clive back."

Whites, with just 18 points from 28 games and bottom of the table, still face a mountainous task to avoid the drop. They need to gain something like ten wins and two draws from their remaining 14 games to reach the 50 point mark which should guarantee safety.

Four clubs are due to go down although Whites will be clinging to the hope that, for a variety of reasons, one or even two of those sides could be reprieved.